[SR-Users] dispatcher gateway probing in 4.3

[Joseph Dickson]

Greetings..

I'm fairly new to Kamailio, and am having fun so far...  I'm using the
latest 4.3 rpm version on Centos 7.

I'm using Kamailio to front end a pair of FreeSwitch SBC boxes in an
active/active config..  My plan is to use dispatcher to load balance calls
between them.  This is working fine.. the problem that I'm bumping into is
that the gateway probing options in dispatcher seem not to fit my use case..

In addition to the two SBC gateways, I also have a few external gateways
that I want to load balance between also using dispatcher.  The problem is
that I can't send options packets to these gateways -- they don't respond
to them.  This means I can't just configure dispatcher to probe all
gateways (probing_method=1) because it will mark these gateways as
inactive..

It looks like every other configuration of probing_method only probes a
gateway until the state is determined, and then it stops probing.
 probing_method=2 does not appear to be used at all in the code..

Am I doing this wrong?  Or is this just an area of dispatcher that needs
some improvement?  Looking at the code, I can probably add the
functionality that I need, but I don't want to go that route if I'm just
missing how this is usually done..

Thanks,

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*Joseph Dickson*
E: jdickson at evolvetsi.com
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